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TIL: Thomas Jefferson introduced macaroni and cheese to the US

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XE7EP TIL Morgan Freeman finds Black History Month ridiculous, stating “You're going to relegate my history to a month? I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history.”
kJdw4 TIL That the first drilling rig to find gas in the UK North Sea, also collapsed 2 months later killing 13 people, making it the first accident in the North Sea, and was the worst accident until Piper Alpha.
v1ZAK TIL during Katrina, the New Orleans airport was turned into a makeshift triage center. There were so many bodies that they used the baggage conveyor belts to carry the stretchers. One reporter said "I’ve been reporting for 21 years around the world and I've never seen the likes of this."
NJNN TIL a law was implemented in 1950’s Greece whereby head shaving with manual clippers was used as punishment for young people caught by police, such as teddyboys and prostitutes. Obligatory hair clipping was finally abolished in Greece in 1982.
9wxVQ TiL the only living survivors of the sinking of the Tirpitz are trees - and they'll happily tell you what they saw.